101 Things That Are Younger Than Plunkett’s Pest Control

Did you know that Plunkett’s Pest Control has been around for 101 years? That’s a pretty long time. To really bring home how impressive that is, here are 101 things younger than Plunkett’s:

The Internet

Any cockroach that has lost its head in the last 100 years

Disney World

The brief but charming popularity of the Beach Boys

The hand held hairdryer

Stan Lee’s comic book career

Mom jeans

Star Wars

The Slinky

Pop-up toasters

World War I

World War II

The cool purple jacket Prince wore in Purple Rain

Superman

More likely than not, any person reading this list

The person who wrote this list

Car radio

Oreo cookies

Band-aids

The ability to make a long-distance phone call

The discovery of the first galaxy other than our own

The Back to the Future trilogy

Wonder Bread

Penicillin

Synthesized insulin for Diabetes treatment

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby

The ballpoint pen

Barbie

The Beatles

Every single pest that was on the planet when we were founded in 1915 (all thanks to our efforts, of course)

Nintendo

The Great Depression

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s tenure as president

A&W Root Beer

The first jet airplane engine

Frank Sinatra’s velvety singing voice

The famous Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken”

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity

Jif peanut butter

In-ear hearing aids

The Commodore 64

Gary Gygax’s roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons

Pyrex

Electric kettles

Brendan Fraser’s acclaimed film hit The Mummy

Snapple

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

Elton John’s grand piano

Aerosol cans

Electric razors

Nicholas Cage and his robust acting career

The Zippo lighter

Radar

Popeye the Sailor Man

Satellites

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s tenure as a Supreme Court judge

Color television

Pacemakers

The Golden Gate Bridge

Smoke detectors

Dishwashers

The Woodstock music festival

Microsoft

James Bond’s submarine car

The Simpsons entire time on the air

Digital thermometers

Disco

Cordless phones

Cell phones

Really, pretty much all phones except for the ones Alexander Graham Bell himself made

Video games in all shapes and forms

Apple company

Frozen food as we know it

George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (and that’s been around forever)

Boeing

Ben and Jerry’s ice cream

The United States National Park Service

Roald Dahl and all his fantastical stories

SPAM

The domestication of the Sugar Glider

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Mickey Mouse

The polio vaccine

Bobby Fischer

The modern day (delicious) cheeseburger

The Empire State Building

Marvel Comics

NASA

The first reported sighting of the Loch Ness Monster

The Peace symbol

The Olympic Winter games

Readers Digest

Saturday Night Live

Credit cards

Bazooka bubble gum

James Joyce’s Ulysses

Star Trek

The T-shirt

The UN

Burger King’s chicken fries

99% of other pest control companies out there

There you have it. Plunkett’s Pest Control has been around for over a century, which is a lot longer than a whole lot of things. Our longevity is due in part to our devotion to staying abreast of the latest industry technology and devoting serious time and effort to training our technicians to be the very best they can be.

Next time you need some pesky critters or pests taken care of, contact us and we’ll be there with the history and know-how to solve your problem quickly and permanently.